The sculpture below was the result of two rip cuts with a Falberg Portable Band Saw. A 12´´ x 12´´ x12´´ beam was ripped end-to-end with a series of semi-circular arcs. The four pieces were inverted and re-joined at the linear corners. It took two hours. Finishing is extra.
The Pescado Family was cut from a piece of mahogany driftwood we picked up off the beach in California; origin unknown. We free-hand ripped these two boards out of the center and fence-ripped the slots through the split portion so an aluminum sheet could be inserted to support the weak ends. They are finished on both sides and the back sides are finished with two distinctly different designs. The point, again, is that you can run some impossible rips with a Falberg Resaw. The carving is easy. If you think the carving on the bottom is ugly, you should have seen it without the lipstick.
This started out as a rafter tail demonstration on the portable band saw for a prospective customer who was looking for a portable bandsaw to do a much simpler design on a home he was building.It ended up being used extensively throughout that and subsequent projects. I cut the test piece off the larger beam and finished the other end, to match, using the resaw table. It´s difficult to set upshort work pieces for a portable band saw cut, so the resaw table is really handy for short, thick pieces like capitals, mantels, or corbels.
